Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-06
GERMANY VERY MAD.
GERMAN BATTING" IN FRANCE ARUUSES
THE BERLIN PRESS.
The Prosecutions Are Continued The Pyyrs
Fight for the Restoration Of tue rem-
poral Power Of the Church

I
poral Power Of the Church
BERLIN, August THE Dcut,c5,, Tdgc>-
JidH, in an article headed "GtIuIau Bait
ing in France, y says:
''lf these prosecutions continue and the
French Government adopt corresponding
measures, We should simply regard France
as barbarOus, nucivihzed nation. and
should break oil diplomatic relations, ds-
continue railway and postal Intercourse
and throw out line of military outposts.
| If the French play at war against us in
time of peace let us do the same thing
Thirty French railroad employees
] residing at Ayricourt, near the frontier of
Germany, have been expelled from the
country.
Keeping the Prince Out of France.
PARIS, August j.--It is stated that the
German Crown Prince hl, been advised by
medical men 10 try the waters Df Cautcrcts.
in France. but that Prince Bismarck and
Prince William oppose the suggestion
Paris Police seize American Papers.
LONDON, August 5.--A Paris dispatch
says that the police Yesterday seized all
the copies of The New York HJaH of July
nth, at that papers bureau in Paris con
tanning the words and music OF the Bou-
LANCER march.
The Pupe's Fight for Temporal Power.
LONDON, August The Pope having
resolved To take an active part IN Italian
politics and Organized IN eleCtionceriDg
committee TO canvass the country in the
interes, of Vatican candidates for seats i'll
the Chamber of Deputies, lively times may
he expected at the next elections in the
| X ingdom. Having made his peace with
Prussia and placed the Church "n pretty
good terms with the various courts abroad,
! His Holiness evidently thinks II about
| time that the only power with which the
| Vatican is now at variance should con
clude peace with him. Already The Nati-
can has sufficient uumhrr of adhrrents
IN the repres, ntat,vc body uI the Italian
councils of the nation hut still not enough
to influence legislation III the direction "t
conCedmg Ia the Church what II has de
manded ever since Victor Emanuel rr-
moved the capital Of Italy from Florence
to Rome aud took up his residence IN the
Quirinal.
In the fight wEIrh the Pope is about Ia
engage in iOr The Ir,tuIItiun ui the tenn
pora! power Of the Church. he will be-
armed with the weapon of consistency and
II cannot but serve him well IN the blood
less engagements that are Ia take place he
tween the Church and the State From
the moment that Plus | * was deprived Of
! his possession Of the PalIllo puirinale,
whose construction hy the Church lasted
! through the reign Of iour p0pc- To the
present time. the Holy See. by the author
| lty vested IN Plus ~ and his successor.
! Leo MIL, has conlcnd,d thar the SlcIi-
| lcgious act of Victor Emanuel virtually
made the Pope prisoner, and that
the temporal power al the Church
was wrrstrd aud withheld from
| It's lawful custodian only hy
| the right Of might. and not hy any right
! that morality Or equity could sanction
has never wayrlcd. The streets at Rome
have been ~ free lo the Holy Father a. the
Vatican palace, yet during the more than
sixteen years that that spot has represented
all that remains Of the once broad terri
tOrlal domains 0l the Church he has moi
set his foot in the streets of the Eternal City
where once the progress OF the Pope was 4
pageant whose magniiicence was unsur
passed throughout the world.
The princely sum which the Italian Gov
ernment has annually set apart to the cred
1t of the Pope and for which a special note
has been engraved and yearly deposited in
the Italian treasury, has remained un-
touched. Nowhere else has ever been
shown so complete an example OF patient
endurance, determination Ot purpose and
consistent adherence 10 principle. The
line of conduct mapped out by Pins IN,
and persistently observed by his sue
cessOr, has had no prrccptible effect
upon the Italian Government or the
Italian people, but il has had it- effect
nevertheless. Whenever the people OF
the officials have given any thought what
soever 10 this matter, they have invariably
found il To present the same phases. The
situation has never changed. As constant
dropping OF water will wear away stone.
40 will constant thought upon Il never
changing subject ultimately arrive at CON
| victiOn. The Pope has observed that con
victton has been reached at last, and the
same patient perseverance that has marked
his endurance OF practical Imprisonment
and deprivation Of his rights viii he cN-
erted upon the people primarily, aud The
Government ultimately to bring about the
cessiOn ol some portion oi the Kingdom to
the church absolutely and irrcyo,ably.